José Antonio Villarreal And Pocho

Author : José Antonio Villarreal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1063976384

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Pocho by José Antonio Villarreal Pdf

Author : José Antonio Villarreal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018683418

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Pocho by José Antonio Villarreal Pdf

Fictionalized account of a Mexican family's experiences in the United States.

Author : Jose Antonio Villarreal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1970-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385061186

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Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal Pdf

Jose Antonio Villarreal illuminates here the world of "pochos," Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas. Richard's struggle to achieve adulthood as a young man influenced by two worlds reveals both the uniqueness of the Mexican-American experiences and its common ties with the struggles of all Americans—whatever their past.

Author : Swati Rana
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469659480

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Race Characters by Swati Rana Pdf

A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall, Ameen Rihani, Dalip Singh Saund, Jose Garcia Villa, and Jose Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream, from individualism to imperialism, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven.

Author : Roberto Cantú
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527588776

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José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho by Roberto Cantú Pdf

This book blends biography, history, and literary criticism in its analysis of Pocho (1959), José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative and semi-autobiographical novel about Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth raised in a pastoral community in central California where people self-identified according to race, ethnicity, or religious affiliation. Richard is the son of an Indigenous Maya mother and a Mexican, fair-skin father who fought in the 1910 Mexican Revolution as a cavalryman, placing Richard outside the town’s imposed and regulated ethnic identities. In spite of his varied ancestry, his American birth, and his probing intelligence, Richard’s Indigenous appearance casts him as a social outsider. Pocho was written over a nine-year period of vigorous creativity, and with Villarreal’s power of recall and imagination at their prime. In writing his inaugural novel, Villarreal drew inspiration from modern narratives (paintings, novels, films), and from ancient Greek tragedy to create a Mexican American version of its classical drama ancestor. This book’s critical approach to Villarreal’s literary work is intelligibly written so as to be of access to a broad and all-inclusive readership and institutions, from college and university professors, public libraries, and the general reader to students of US, Mexican American, and world literatures.

Author : Alberto Varon
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479831197

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Before Chicano by Alberto Varon Pdf

Uncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity In the first ever book-length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U.S. Mexican War and the year of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first organized conference on women’s rights in the United States. These concurrent events signaled new ways of thinking about U.S. citizenship, and placing these historical moments into conversation with the archive of Mexican American print culture, Varon offers an expanded temporal frame for Mexican Americans as long-standing participants in U.S. national projects. Pulling from a wide-variety of familiar and lesser-known works—from fiction and newspapers to government documents, images, and travelogues—Varon illustrates how Mexican Americans during this period envisioned themselves as U.S. citizens through cultural depictions of manhood. Before Chicano reveals how manhood offered a strategy to disparate Latino communities across the nation to imagine themselves as a cohesive whole—as Mexican Americans—and as political agents in the U.S. Though the Civil Rights Movement is typically recognized as the origin point for the study of Latino culture, Varon pushes us to consider an intellectual history that far predates the late twentieth century, one that is both national and transnational. He expands our framework for imagining Latinos’ relationship to the U.S. and to a past that is often left behind.

Author : José Antonio Villarreal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173022945450

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The Fifth Horseman by José Antonio Villarreal Pdf

Author : Oscar Zeta Acosta
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307831675

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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta Pdf

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.

Author : José Antonio Villarreal
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0916950484

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Clemente Chacón by José Antonio Villarreal Pdf

The author takes us on a painful but uncompromisingly authentic social and psychological journey. Physically we move from the most impoverished barrios of Ciudad Juarez to the power centers of the American business world; psychologically we trace the "unsentimental" education of an ingenuous and noble, albeit streetwise, enfant sauvage of the Mexican subproletariat.

Author : Rudolfo A. Anaya
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : 1597228354

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Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya Pdf

Anaya draws on the Spanish-American folklore with which he grew up in this unique depiction of a Hispanic childhood in the Southwest.

Author : Oscar Zeta Acosta
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307831668

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The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta Pdf

The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”— the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.

Author : Américo Paredes
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611921546

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George Washington Gómez by Américo Paredes Pdf

In the 1930s, Américo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. Episodes of guerilla warfare, land grabs, racism, jingoism, and abuses by the Texas Rangers make this an adventure novel as well as one of reflection on the making of modern day Texas. George Washington GÑmez is a true precursor of the modern Chicano novel.

Author : Rüdiger Heinze
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839440452

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Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature by Rüdiger Heinze Pdf

In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While there is work on individual authors or, at the very most, particular ethnic groups, comparative approaches are rare. This monograph aims to amend this. It provides an extensive discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants, comparing different authors, different ethnic groups and different literary and historical contexts.

Author : Ana Castillo
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385470803

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Sapogonia by Ana Castillo Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book • "A complex, engaging novel...Sapogonia will establish Castillo as one of our finest Chicana novelists." --Rudolfo Anaya The author of So Far From God, Ana Castillo confronts the complex issues of race and identity facing those of mixed heritage through the struggles of Máximo Madrigal, an expatriate of Sapogonia, the metaphorical homeleand of all mestizos. Subtly political, it demonstrates how warring blood within a single body resists any peaceful resolution.

Author : Harold Augenbraum,Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0395661242

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Growing Up Latino by Harold Augenbraum,Ilan Stavans Pdf

A comprehensive collection of Latino writing of fiction and nonfiction works in English.